{"id":744,"date":"2009-05-20T08:05:04","date_gmt":"2009-05-20T08:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/gospelsoundcheck\/2009\/05\/ccm-2009-readers-choice-award.html"},"modified":"2009-05-20T08:05:04","modified_gmt":"2009-05-20T08:05:04","slug":"ccm-2009-readers-choice-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/gospelsoundcheck\/2009\/05\/ccm-2009-readers-choice-award.html","title":{"rendered":"CCM 2009 Readers&#8217; Choice Award Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"JeremyCamp.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/118\/import\/JeremyCamp.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"298\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right;margin: 0 0 20px 20px\" \/><\/span>CCMmagazine.com readers named Jeremy Camp their favorite artist and Family Force 5 their favorite band in the 2009 Readers&#8217; Choice Awards.<br \/>\nPast winner and consistent fan favorite Camp was named Best Songwriter in addition to the Best Artist honor. Family Force 5 came out a big winner once again this year, taking home Best Band, Best Album for <em>Dance or Die <\/em>(Tooth &amp; Nail) and Most Underrated Artist.<br \/>\nTobyMac repeated as Best Male Artist, while Natalie Grant won Best Female Artist for the first time. Keeping their string alive, Chris Tomlin was named Best Worship Artist for the fifth consecutive year and KJ-52 Best Hip-Hop Artist for the fourth year. In addition, newcomers Tenth Avenue North, Francesca Battistelli and Brandon Heath scored top votes for the first time in this year&#8217;s awards. Group 1 Crew, Flyleaf, Kirk Franklin and Lifehouse were also favorites of the fans.<br \/>\nYou can see the entire list of fan favorites on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salememail.com\/specialoffers\/CCMReadersChoice2009\/\" target=\"_blank\">CCM website.<\/a><br \/>\n<em><a href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=GospelSoundcheck&amp;loc=en_US\">Click here to subscribe to Gospel Soundcheck by email <\/a>and have the Gospel Soundcheck headlines delivered daily to your email inbox. And don&#8217;t forget to <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/joannebrokaw\" target=\"_blank\">follow me on Twitter!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CCMmagazine.com readers named Jeremy Camp their favorite artist and Family Force 5 their favorite band in the 2009 Readers&#8217; Choice Awards. Past winner and consistent fan favorite Camp was named Best Songwriter in addition to the Best Artist honor. 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